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Reload (Ministry song)

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Released
  
July, 1996

Recorded
  
1994-1995

Label
  
Sire Warner Bros.

Format
  
CD single 12" vinyl

Length
  
2:25

Writer(s)
  
Al Jourgensen Paul Barker

"Reload" is a song from American industrial metal band Ministry. The song was the third single from the band's 1996 album Filth Pig. The single was unsuccessful and failed to reach a position on any chart. There was a video released for the song.

Music video

The video for "Reload" was released in mid-1996. A spoof of the JFK assassination conspiracies. It featured a world filled with guns, where almost anything could be one. People depicted as possible assassins include:

  • An assassin with a rifle assembled from a fishing rod.
  • Fidel Castro with a pistol concealed inside a Cuban cigar supported by Richard Nixon as his number 2.
  • A man with a weapon concealed within an 8 mm film camera on a tripod.
  • A Mafia hitman with a weapon inside a violin.
  • Oddjob sharpening then throwing his hat.
  • A woman whose walking frame breaks into a rifle.
  • A bishop in ornate vestments with a bomb made out of a jewel encrusted orb.
  • Jesus Christ with a nail gun supported by an alien.
  • A baton twirler using her baton as a rocket launcher.
  • Jimmy Hendrix with a blowpipe.
  • Marilyn Monroe using a pistol inside a banana after a photo shoot with Andy Warhol.
  • finally Jackie Onassis makes a gun shape with her fingers and points at JFK.

    • The video also featured Al Jourgensen dressed up as Jackie Onassis, Charles Manson and other 1960s icons. It was banned from MTV.

    References

    Reload (Ministry song) Wikipedia
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